'Luddite' definitions:
Definition of 'Luddite'
From: WordNet
noun
Any opponent of technological progress
noun
One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
Definition of 'Luddite'
From: GCIDE
- Luddite \Lud"dite\, n. One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. --J. & H. Smith. --H. Martineau. [1913 Webster]